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31 December 2012

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Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1905


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Viola d'amore

30 December 2012

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Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora


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Riin Tamm

29 December 2012

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Moulsecoomb Place in the Moulsecoomb area of Brighton


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Les Twins, photographed by Shawn Welling in 2010

28 December 2012

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Momoka Ariyasu


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St Laurence's Church, Church Stretton, from the southwest

27 December 2012

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Anantashayana Vishnu carved in sandstone in the riverbed


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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the men who made the first ascent of Everest on 29 May 1953

26 December 2012

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Indira Gandhi


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Oil on canvas, 143 x 115 cm, National Gallery of Scotland

25 December 2012

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An example of a Christmas sweater


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Pasterka mass

24 December 2012

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Italian Hall on December 25


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Douglas maple fruits

23 December 2012

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Prince Vuna Takitakimālohi and parents


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Henrietta Stanley

22 December 2012

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Tarsar Lake


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An actual gold philippeios

21 December 2012

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Amdavad ni Gufa


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Kippinge Church

20 December 2012

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Riki Ott in Mississippi


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Painting by Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz, 1917

19 December 2012

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A wolf-like monster that Abraham Van Helsing's son must defeat


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Standing cup by Johannes Lutma, 1639

18 December 2012

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Antoine de Bosc de la Calmette


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Parliament House, Singapore, in October 2002


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View of old post office from Broadway and State Street

17 December 2012

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Dutton Horse Bridge


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Vishvarupa


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Psilocybe allenii

16 December 2012

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Monument to the Ghetto Heroes


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Noisy Pitta


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Wrenbury Church Bridge

15 December 2012

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1930 portrait of Jessie Stephen


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1956 Dodge La Femme fender


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Mochi ice cream

14 December 2012

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Torkilstrup windmill


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Princess Teri’i-vae-tua-vahine Pōmare, c. 1885


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Giacomo Bove (1852–87), Italian explorer

13 December 2012

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Ophiura albida with one broken arm


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Backbone Rock Tunnel


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Ashanti Yam Festival

12 December 2012

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1936 Lincoln-Zephyr


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Charles Mangin who led the French forces in the Battle of Sidi Bou Othman

11 December 2012

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Spine of the Rock of Gibraltar


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The Tso Kar salt lake


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Ben Sheets pitching for the Milwaukee Brewers in 2008

10 December 2012

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Minotaur at anchor before World War I


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Selfe's 1903 winning design for a Sydney Harbour Bridge


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Pattinson's 1840 daguerreotype of Niagara Falls

9 December 2012

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The young Countess of Southampton


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View of church from southwest


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Engraving of Nicolas-Henri Tardieu by his son Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu after a painting by Jean-Baptiste van Loo, 1743

8 December 2012

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A coloured sketcth of Great Bustards


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Lincoln Highway Bridge


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Squeaky Fromme's pistol

7 December 2012

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Hinglaj Mata Mandir in Pakistan


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Small frond of Trudell's spleenwort


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Skunk

6 December 2012

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The Louvre lion and accompanying stone tablet


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Forest Idyl, in Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolina


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Hedenstad before a match for Norway U21

5 December 2012

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View of Camberley Obelisk from the west


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Justin Butterfield


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Banksia dentata spike (cone) developing follicles

4 December 2012

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Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz by Jan Matejko


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Front of Meigs County Courthouse


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Patrick Omameh

3 December 2012

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The Big 4, with a Snowman and the Snowdog themed installation

  • ... that the Big 4 outside Channel 4's headquarters in London has been covered with umbrellas, dressed as a wheelchair paralympian, made to "breathe" and has had a snowman fly over it (pictured)?
  • ... that the nectar of the hoary banksia turns olive green and then black with age?
  • ... that, having played 465 league matches, Jaroslav Šilhavý holds the record for the most appearances in top-flight Czech football?
  • ... that in 2000, the holding company of chef Jean-Christophe Novelli's restaurant Maison Novelli ran up a debt of £200,000 and went into voluntary liquidation?
  • ... that Kommercekollegiet was established in 1704 for the purpose of advising the Danish monarch on matters related to trade and industry?
  • ... that William Morris described decorating Sir Lowthian Bell's mansion as "ministering to the swinish luxury of the rich"?


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The Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center docked in East Bronx, New York


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Allen from the 1900 Michiganensian yearbook

2 December 2012

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South facade of the Château Pastré


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Krishna


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Hubert von Goisern in 2009

1 December 2012

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Fresco in Tingsted Church


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Ship Shoal Light (USCG)


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Mothers' Day card to Truman asking him to free Rosa Lee Ingram